How Disability Awareness Can Support Course Design Conversations
As the conversations about Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) increase as faculty start designing courses and assessments for the fall I have noticed lately a reoccuring theme in a lot of the posts - the need for flexibility. Many of the posts speak to how difficult it is to design when the technology seems to be changing daily. And this is where we are at now, and upon reflection I realized that half of this conversation would be a lot easier if folk had engaged with the dynamic and episodic nature of disability before everyone started caring about LLMs because it really would help the conversation. I am finding, and again I don't have an n=X number to give you because this is just observational at this point, but that the faculty who are having a bit of an easier time thinking about what course design and assessment design would look like in their classes, are the faculty who have already thought about how to design courses for things like dynamic disabilities or epi...